How Can You Help Someone Struggling With Addiction?

How Can You Help Someone Struggling with Addiction? – Is someone in your life struggling with addiction? Do you know if you should help them, or how? KATU News in Portland, Oregon interviews Hazelden’s Dr. Vern Williams who speaks candidly about what we can do to help a person struggling with addiction, in light of Amy Winehouse’s death. For more information about Hazelden, please visit www.hazelden.org or call 800-257-7810.

Prescription drug abuse declining locally, nationwide

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According to the Oregon High Intensity Drug Area, or HIDTA, annual report, released earlier this year, Jackson County has the most people in Oregon per capita who seek treatment for prescription-medication addiction. Many of these people seek treatment …
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Opiate consumption exceeds methamphetamine in Oregon

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“You got a whole gamut of abuse out there,” Director of Pharmacy Programs for Oregon Health Authority Dr. Tom Burns said. In the last seven years, the nation has seen a dramatic rise in opiate abuse. In Oregon alone, drug treatment admissions for …
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Governors' panel looks at prescription drug abuse

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The academy is spending a year looking at how to reduce prescription drug abuse in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, New Mexico, Oregon and Virginia. A spokesman for the governor says the academy is looking at everything from online …
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Clearing the smoke: Controversy over pot legalization brews in Oregon

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“Societies that have decriminalized [marijuana] don't have anything close to our drug abuse rate,” said Rep. Buckley. Instead of operating out of a mindset of fear and a war-on-drugs mentality in law enforcement, Buckley hopes the passing of Measure 80 …
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